How to Provision a system without using PXE Boot from Red Hat Satellite ?
Environment
- Red Hat Satellite
- Baremetal Kickstart
Issue
- Need to kickstart clients from satellite server without using PXE Boot ?
- How to perform baremetal kickstart on a client using satellite server ?
Resolution
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When a machine has no existing operating system or has the wrong operating system installed, it is referred to as a bare metal machine. There are two ways to provision a machine from bare metal:
- Standard operating system installation media
- Reprovisioning
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Standard operating system installation media:
Follow below mentioned steps to perform aStandard operating system installation mediaprovisoing:-
Create a Kickstart profile on the satellite server.
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Insert installation media into the machine. The media must match the kickstart intended to use. For eg: if the kickstart is configured to use the ks-rhel-i386-server-5-u2 kickstart tree, use the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 i386 installation media.
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At the boot prompt, activate the kickstart by giving this command:
linux ks=http://satellite.example.com/path/to/kickstartRefer this kbase for information on:How can I see the baremetal kickstart URL from Satellite?
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Reprovisioning:
- Reinstalling an existing system is referred to as reprovisioning. Reprovisioning can be done using the RHN Satellite web interface, and the system will use the same system profile that it had before it was reprovisioned. This will preserve a lot of the information and settings about the system. To use this functionality the system should be entitled to 'provisioing' entitlement.
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Reprovisioning can be scheduled from the Provisioning tab while viewing a system.
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For more information refer: Kickstarting a Machine
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